Quark Gluon Plasma as a Strongly Coupled Color-Coulombic Plasma

Abstract

We show that the extensively studied equation of state (EOS) of strongly coupled QED plasma fits the recent lattice EOS data of gluon plasma remarkably well, with appropriate modifications to take account of color degrees of freedom and running coupling constant. Hence we conclude that the quark gluon plasma near the critical temperature is a strongly coupled color-Coulombic plasma.

Comments: Latex file (8 pages), Postscript files of 4 figures